Totally Unaltered Tweet: What Chase Headley Is Discussing
February 1, 2013
On the field, Chase Headley has committed himself to excellence as both an offensive and defensive player. As the following tweet reveals — courtesy MLB Trade Rumors and in-no-way altered from the original — as it reveals, Headley has also committed himself to becoming familiar with the most important ideas of our time (click to embiggen):
Carson Cistulli has published a book of aphorisms called Spirited Ejaculations of a New Enthusiast.
TED talks must be like what the Bible was a century ago for psuedointellectuals and/or the upper middle class. Consume it/them regularly, mention how you enjoy the contrarian nature and allegory when discussing with others how you do, indeed, consume it/them regularly, and then smile and shrug (maybe with a furrowed brow as a finishing touch) when presented with the notion that it’s/they’re filled with loads of self-contradictory material.
I loathe that attitude; It’s haughty and elitist to the point of being baffling, and nothing more than what you declaim the TED talks to be: contrarian and unintelligent. Please take your acerbity somewhere else, or at the very least make snide comments that actually have some degree of relevance to what material the Fangraphs authors publish.
Ok, if you’re trolling me, you win. Otherwise…
First, the subject matter of my intentionally dry comment is completely relevant to a *comedic* post where the device is Chase Headley linking to a TED talk.
Second, despite your carefully crafted take-down, you’ve nonetheless missed the point entirely. Evidentally at least 10 others have as well. My “disgust” comes in the form of a humorous observation that people who zealously consume TED talks demonstrate equal fervor subsequently promoting that fact (here, in Headley’s case, through twitter).
It seems to me that Carson was making a shrewd joke here. On one level, he’s playing with expectation. We don’t expect Chase Headley to be posting about TED Talks on his twitter feed. But then on another level, how many of us have annoying friends who always post stuff like this. Hashtag, “Mind, blown”. It’s like, enough already. Go read a book for once.
as opposed to diet dew and ice road truckers?
What Diet Dew and Ice Road Truckers can Teach Us About Innovative Disruption is my favorite TED talk